I knew Mike Sandy, but I can not say he was a close friend of mine..... but he was close with an ex-housemate named Luis. I would not hesitate to say he was Luis's best friend.
Mike died as a result of injuries from a hate crime - a gay bashing...... is a link to the Wikipedia page about Mike and what happened:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sandy Note: - although all these photos were taken with my camera, a few of them were taken by Mike's friend Luis Gomez
